Sentences with phrase «include macaque»

They measured cerebral activity of awake monkeys that were listening to different categories of natural sounds, including macaque vocalizations.

Several groups of nonhuman primates including macaques, chimps, and capuchins have found a way to use rocks to secure new food sources.

Only cats hunt more rodents in human habitat than street dogs; no other species more effectively rousts monkeys, including macaques, who carry more than 100 infections transmissible by bite or through fecal matter that can kill humans.

Not exact matches

In particular, humans share an unfortunate «broken gene» with many other primates, including chimpanzees, orangutans, and macaques.

These cover the parts and tissues of a whole host of threatened species, including African grey parrots, all species of pangolins, and Barbary macaques.

Despite previous logging and farming in the planted forests zone, more than 400 vertebrate species, including bears, civets, macaques, leopard cats, mongooses, pangolins, and porcupines, have been spotted there.

Other primate species, including chimpanzees and macaques, also cradle and carry their fussy young.

The researchers used a large dataset spanning 21 years and including 910 adult female rhesus macaques in Puerto Rico.

Next, they categorized the action patterns the macaques used during the hammering, including hand use, posture, and striking motion, for over 600 tool - uses across 90 individuals.

This summer evolutionary biologists Marlene Zuk and Nathan Bailey from the University of California, Riverside, published a paper on the subject that included examples from dozens of species ranging from dung flies and woodpeckers to bison and macaques.

«But, perhaps more importantly, these results support a rarely tested idea that social signaling itself, such as the need to detect blushing and facial color changes, might have had a role in the evolution or maintenance of the unusual type of color vision shown in primates, especially those with conspicuous patches of bare skin, including humans, macaques, and many others,» concludes co-author Amanda Melin of the University of Calgary.

First author Siddharth Krishnamurthy and the team, including Dan Barouch, MD, PhD, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, identified RNA bacteriophages by analyzing data from oceans, sewage, soils, crabs, sponges and barnacles, as well as insects, mice and rhesus macaques.

Long - tailed macaques living near an Indonesian temple have learned how to steal human possessions, including cash, and then trade them for food

Fifty - nine mammals were also documented through motion sensitive cameras, including lively macaques, dusky - leaf monkeys, tree rats, and flying squirrels (images available upon request).

«However,» the author adds, «although our results suggest that rhesus macaques are able to distinguish between in - group and out - group individuals based on olfactory cues alone, the recognition of conspecifics might be a more multimodal process also including visual cues or a combination of olfactory and auditory signals.

Long - tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis), for example, dive for food, including crabs and other crustaceans.

From the human perspective, few events in evolution were more momentous than the split among primates that led to apes (large, tailless primates such as today's gorillas, chimpanzees, and humans) and Old World monkeys (which today include baboons and macaques).

These hubs have been found in the brains of many mammals, including mice and macaque monkeys.

The food treats included items that the primates particularly like: dead crickets for the marmosets and tamarins, crackers for the macaques, and Smarties candies for the human children.

To do that, a team including Kash and Katze infected seven macaques with the reconstructed virus.

Following experimental inoculation and progression, macaque tissues shown by PCR to harbor B. burgdorferi include skeletal muscles, heart, bladder, peripheral nerves, and the central nervous system (cerebrum, brainstem and cerebellum, spinal cord, and dura mater).

Antibody responses particularly to Gag and Env proteins are hallmarks of immune responses to retroviral infections including experimental XMRV infection of macaques [22].

Negative controls including the secondary antibody alone and uninfected monkey tissue were used, as was an ex vivo section of infected macaque brain tissue [43] for the positive control.

Experimental animal studies have shown that Borrelia burgdorferi, the agent of Lyme borreliosis, consistently establishes persistent infections in a variety of immunocompetent hosts, including laboratory mice [1], white - footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus)[2], [3], [4], rats [5], hamsters [6], guinea pigs [7], gerbils [8], dogs [9], and nonhuman primates, including rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)[10] and baboons (Papio spp.)[11].

During their fertility window, the genital area of our female primate relatives, including baboons, macaques, and chimpanzees turn scarlet, most likely to attract males.

The park is rich in flora and fauna including many rare plants, almost 100 different species of birds — including the Sumba flycatcher, apricot - crested sunbird, yellow - crested cockatoo and Sumba green pigeon — around 50 species of butterfly and animals such as water monitor lizards and crab - eating macaque monkeys.

Aside from tramping through the forest, you'll see plenty of birdlife and monkeys — the latter particularly near d'Lagoon where there is a bunch of macaques (including one that is prone to psychotic episodes on Turtle beach) that you'll see, or hear as they munch on fresh mangoes, while between West beach and Tuna Bay there is a very playful chilled out family of dusky langurs — we saw them a few times on the roof of the Turtle Bay Divers office at the southern end of West beach.

A highlight of the region is trekking through West Bali National Park which is home to deer, wild pigs, macaque monkeys, the timid large black monkeys and a wide range of bird life including the elusive Bali starling.

The second component of the case study focuses not on a case but on a legal controversy that generated a lot of public discussion in summer 2014: the rights of photographer David Slater after he set up a photo shoot in Indonesia, stepped away for a moment, and came back to find hundreds of shots taken by an intrepid macaque monkey, including a particularly striking photo that Slater sought to control for licensing purposes.

All too familiar with the Canadian climate, the customers had wrapped up in their warmest clothes — including Darwin, the baby rhesus macaque who made worldwide headlines when he was found wandering around the store car park sporting a really rather delightful faux - shearling coat.